The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 100

THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SEC. 5-PAGE 5 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1978 Too Bad Couldn't Just Print Mone By THE STAR CITY STAFF A key figure in a controversial, politically printing company of the past has gone the positions to those held by the majority of the voters. AND THE BIGGEST surprise of all: After 40 years, the politicians have finally discovered that people think taxes are too high. All those taxpayers who think these politicians will work to lower these taxes should line up right under the sign marked, "Don't hold your breath." There Oughta Be A Law About The Law For The Law The Indianapolis Police Department surprised a few people earlier this week when it announced it uaniw rouie wnue sua owing money to the government. Richard C.

Longworth says in his bankruptcy petition that he owes $7,000 to the Small Business Administration as a result of a defaulted loan by the defunct Universal Printing Co. Longworth is the brother of Edgar L. (Nick) Longworth, once an aide to former Indiana Republican National Committeeman L. Keith Bulen, who was not without some influence in the SBA. would continue to violate a state law that prohibits it from keeping records of handgun sales.

Assistant Pnlirp fhipf William Pond, in charge while 4J Chief Eugene Gallagher is on vacation, said the department would continue to hold onto the records because they needed them to track down stolen hanrieims 41 And as if it weren't enough ff)' $IJ for the police department to vinlofo ho lo, ion Mills DICK LONG WORTH'S bankruptcy attorney is former Municipal Court Judge Clarence R. Mills who also is his boss by virtue of having an interest in Casco Graphic Service where Longworth is employed as a printer. H. Dale Brown, former county GOP chairman, also has an interest in Casco. In fact, after Universal folded two years ago, Mills purchased most of the equipment for use by Casco.

Mills was not reappointed to the bench after Casco became a bidder for the county printing contract, including the contract for the county court's printing needs. When it became known that Mills had a piece of the Casco action, the contract went elsewhere. LONGWORTH SAYS the $7,000 is the balance due on an SBA loan, the original amount of which was not listed in court records. He had been a personal guarantor. Universal in its heyday handled some hefty public printing contracts, but encountered controversy over its performance.

Longworth said his debts total close to $89,000. They Weans' It This Time The Rev. Jacqueline Means, first woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest, and her husband. Delton Means, have called off their divorce and reconciled. He moved back home July 8, it has been learned.

The couple is undergoing counseling and "it is working out real well. I think counseling has helped. We've been through a stressful two years and I'm glad mine's behind me," said the Rev. Mrs. Means, who prefers to be called Jackie.

She proudly added that they have their third grandchild, a daughter born to their son, Pat -Hi X. In ii mil iril It's Another Case Of The Ones That Got Away apartment and magazines sent to him were found when the boys in blue arrived. But Jack wasn't on the premises, and some of the players noted that the two top boys weren't there, the vice squad says. i Those arrested included some of the pasteboard celebrities of the Antelope and other private clubs, including Liss David Perry and Lewis (Lulu) Davis, i The vice raid which bagged nine gamblers in a high-stakes poker game in a Riley Towers apartment recently came close to getting the top man, John W. (Jack) Doyle.

Doyle, who formerly controlled a big money game in the downtown Antelope Club until publicity dictated moving on, signed the lease for the Riley who also happens to be a state es legislator said he supported their keeping the records. CAPT. ANTHONY Miles, a Republican state representative from Indianapolis, and one of the General Assembly's most conservative members, followed his superior's line on the issue and supported the record keeping, which his fellow gun control opponents claim is a violation of their civil rights. A strange position for an arch-conservative who, if he followed the conservative's bible, should fight any form of gun control and registration laws. Whatever the reason, the police department, by the refusal to follow the law, has pre-empted the function of the legislature and enacted de facto gun registration in Marion County.

HOWEVER, Miles seems to have a propensity for ignoring laws which he finds inconvenient. He served as a legislative lobbyist for the Fraternal Order of Police and the Il'D. sometimes even working against bills favored by his boss, Mayor William H. Hudnut, yet he defied state law and refused to register as a lobbyist. Old Scores Being Settled? Friends of George M.

Pollard, the police major demoted to captain in the recent cheating scandal, think that regardless of Pollard's culpability, the episode was used to settle old grudges. True or not, Pollard former deputy chief in charge of the operations division was nailed as a result of a complaint by Capt. William E. Owen, former head of the narcotics and vice squads, who is said to bear long-time enmity for Pollard. Without much fanfare, other disciplinary action has been taken that may have some bearing on the matter.

Patrolman Charles Pollard, George Pollard's nephew, is said to have received a 30-day suspension for failing to report for a doctor's examination while marked off sick. He refused to comment, but colleagues said the suspension came after he was unable to comply with a last-second order from civilian personnel. Patrolman Pollard reportedly is talking to a lawyer. Might As WeU Owe Big Federal bankruptcy court is the present resting place for an Indianapolis construction company responsible for building hundreds of new homes, many through the Federal Housing Administration. Bankruptcy first was sought for Wayco Building then for its principal officers, Wayne Copen-haver, president, and his wife, Ruth, the secretary.

Wayco ran up debts totaling more than $765,000 with assets of $206,000, the pending petition states, while the Copenhavers listed bills of $838,975 (many the same as the business') with personal assets of $60,100. Copenhaver's brother John formerly ran Top Construction, another one-time builder of numerous new local residences. Rev. Means Means, and his wife, Terri. FBI Doesn't Want To End Up With 'Egger' On Its Face The smoke seems to have cleared from the recent firing by the FBI of Special Agent Charles E.

Egger, but reliable sources say the heat hasn't dissipated entirely. There is reason to believe that two teams of investigators have been in and out of Indianapolis in recent weeks, one representing FBI Director William H. Webster and the other Attorney General Griffin B. Bell. The subject: Charges of possible corruption within the FBI, originally raised by Egger.

Whether any thorough investigation has resulted or will result is unknown, but at least there is some interest. IT IS SAID the Webster people are from the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, while the Department of Justice contingent is focused through the Chicago-based organized crime strike force. Egger, you will recall, was fired after he refused to accept a transfer to Chicago in the wake of alleged harassment for raising questions about the conduct of other agents, particularly in relation to organized crime and gambling. Disciplinary action against Egger was weighed by itself in Webster's office, while the corruption charges are being considered separately, one report has it. Federal Building sources say Egger's attorney is appealing the dismissal to Webster.

have been taken to insure that it doesn't happen again to the customer. Now, What Is It Our Mothers Said About Campaign Pledges? A training school for the four Republican state office candidates in the coming fall election was held last week, and some of the courses should have been interesting to the candidates, not to mention the voters. Included in the session was a phony news conference and lectures from the Republican state committee's pollsters, Market Opinion Research. The candidates were taught that the voter's perception of reality is sometimes different from reality itself. THE FOUR, to the surprise of no one, were taught the main campaign issue will be taxes.

From this little school, it "can be perceived that the old art of Hoosier political' has entered the 20th Century, where the pollsters identify and classify not only the issue but also the solution most favored by the bulk of the voters. Now the politicians no longer have to guess what stand to take to gain votes and please the voters. They now know what would be most acceptable and it now becomes easier to tailor their views and Harried Phone Customer Unlisted, Even To Himself An Indianapolis customer is "outraged" with Indiana Bell Telephone Co. because his telephone number was changed to a non-published number without his knowledge and at the request of "some nut" the customer said has been harassing him on the phone. A woman called Bell's business office claiming to be the man's wife, according to a service representative.

The service rep explained that the company doesn't check on such requests, they just accept the caller's stated identity and provide the service. She said this type of occurrence is very rare. The victim of the harassment is a witness in an upcoming trial. He discovered the problem when he tried to call home one day and was greeted with a recorded message announcing that his number had been changed. He called an operator, who verified the change but would not give him the new number because it was now "non-published" and such numbers are never revealed by Ma Bell, the operator said.

"Which means at this stage of the game, the nut knew my number but I didn't," he said. While a company spokesman said the occurrence was too rare to require a change in policy, steps assess The Star's Washington Bureau Si r--rr with the national government is one of his most serious handicaps. authenticity despite the fact it actually didn't exist. It is all a very interesting little comedy of errors, but it could have had serious consequences if, for instance, enough states had similarly sent petitions to Congress so that Indiana's might have been the "magic" one to trigger the calling of the constitutional convention. THE UPS AND downs of the Carter administration are causing Republicans to realize that they can't afford any mistakes in their choice of a 1980 presidential nominee.

The man their convention picks to lead the ticket might well land in the White House, as voter sentiment appears right now. The Democratic Party's fortunes are never too good in presidential years, and despite the statistical minority of the GOP, it has fared well in recent contests for the White House. As they cast about for signs of a winner among their 1980 aspirants, the Republicans see a field composed of former Treasury Secretary John Con-nally of Texas; former CIA Director George Bush; former Governor and perennial presidential candidate Ronald Reagan; Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker former President Gerald R. Ford, and Sen. Robert Dole to name a few.

One sentiment seems to be emerging that the nominee has to have some experience in the federal government. The impression abroad is that President Jimmy Carter's lack of experience in dealing National Endowment for the Humanities publication, draws 10 to 30 students. In Shakespeare's plays, nine physicians appear. There are some 1,400 medical references in his works, and in "Hamlet" alone there are nearly 100. Dr.

Miller has now expanded to a second seminar, "Medicine in with students invited to probe the works of Dickens, Camus, Thomas Hardy, and Eugene O'Neill for medical lore. THE DETERMINATION of the handicapped not to be handicapped always produces inspiring stories. Here's the story of Surinder S. Dhillon, of Washington, D.C., who found he couldn't accept a $173-a-week job in 1970 because it would have cost him $50 a day just to hire transport to get himself and his wheelchair to work. So with two partners he started a business, transporting the handicapped.

In six months they were operating a fleet of three vans. Next thing, Dhillon incorporated Rehab Computer a computer consulting firm which expects to gross $8.5 million this year. Group Rehab, which grew out of Rehab Computer, now runs three vans to haul handicapped employes to work. But Dhillon insists that para-transit for the handicapped is not the answer, and he crusades to force public transportation vehicles to be equipped to serve them. PANHANDLE Magazine, published by Panhandle and Eastern Pipeline Company, publishes in its newest issue an article about Ernie Pyle, the Hoosier war correspondent.

The handsomely illustrated story tells how Pyle started his career on the LaPorte (Ind.) Herald, then came to Washington, D.C., for a raise. During his career, Pyle traveled all over the U.S., seeking out the heartwarming stories of plain Americans. When he applied the same kind of reporting to the of World War II, his fame was instantaneous and he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work. Pyle was killed in 1945 on Ie Shima. He was a native of Dana, where his home is preserved as a shrine.

Panhandle Magazine notes that its pipeline runs just a short distance away from the Pyle homestead. DR. FRANK N. Miller a senior professor of pathology at George Washington University school of medicine here, has convictions about doctors getting some exposure to other subjects. And so he has for the last 11 years offered a seminar on "Medicine in Shakespeare" for George Washington University medics.

The elective course, reports Patrick O'Sheel in a Washington Indiana is undeservedly on record in Congress as seeking a Constitutional Convention mandated to write an amendment requiring Uncle Sam to balance his budget. A number of states have passed such resolutions, calling on Congress to convoke such a convention. Although amendments to the Constitution hitherto have been adopted by two-thirds vote of Congress, then submitted to the legislatures for ratification by three-fourths of the states, the Constitution provides for the calling of a convention. If two-thirds of the states petition Congress, then it must call such a convention, and the amendment proposed by such a convention becomes law when ratified by three-fourths of the states. SEN.

RICHARD G. Lugar (R-Ind.) got a letter last week from the Indiana General Assembly telling him about the error insofar as the Hoosier state's posture is concerned. Clipped to the letter was a page from a 1976 copy of the Congressional Record in which Indiana's petition was reproduced. The only thing wrong was that the Hoosier petition died in a pigeonhole and was never adopted by the state lawmakers. Lugar'i staff inquired of State Rep.

Steve Stough-ton (R-Indianapolis), who recalled signing the certificate sent to Congress; but it was put before him, evidently, by clerical error. The erroneous petition wn bore the Great Seal of Indiana, giving it full Wi i.